About: | Michael Jursa |
Position: | Key Researcher |
Node: | Geographies of Power |
The framework of a COE facilitates diachronic and synchronic studies in environmental history across a wide area stretching from Mongolia and Central Asia to the Caucasus, the Middle East and Southeast Europe. These regions include a high variety of topographies, landscapes and social constellations, accessible through a great diversity of sources. For Ottoman / Turkish studies this topic allows a rereading of a rich collection of texts, not yet systematically investigated, that often contain information related to nature, environment, human – nature, human – animal as well as human – nature relations.